The Senate has confirmed physician David Shulkin to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs not long after confirming Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary.

The vote Monday was 100-0 for Shulkin while the vote for Mnuchin was 53-47.

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Shulkin is a former Obama administration official who had served as the VA's top health official since 2015.

He is the first non-veteran to lead the government's second-largest department.

Shulkin has pledged a more modest approach to fixing the VA than had been suggested by Donald Trump on the campaign trail. The 57-year-old physician has ruled out wide-scale firings and privatization of the embattled agency as ways to reduce the length of time veterans must wait for medical care.

While Shulkin's vote was quite unanimous, Mnuchin's was not as smooth.

Republicans said Mnuchin's long tenure in finance is an ample prerequisite for the Treasury job. Mnuchin is also a former top executive at Goldman Sachs.

Democrats complained that Mnuchin made much of his fortune by foreclosing on families during the financial crisis.

Mnuchin assembled a group to buy the failed IndyMac. He renamed it OneWest and turned it around, selling it for a profit in 2014.

Mnuchin has said he had worked hard during the financial crisis to assist homeowners with refinancing so they could remain in their homes.